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Systems, methods and computer program products memory space management for storage class memory

a technology for storage class memory and storage space, applied in the direction of memory address/allocation/relocation, instruments, input/output to record carriers, etc., can solve the problems of data software system design and application building complex, and hide i/o performance impa

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-02-27
IBM CORP
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The present invention provides a system and method for efficiently managing memory space in a storage class memory (SCM). The system includes a main memory for buffering storage management metadata and a standalone SCM for storing data and metadata. The main memory is used for buffering metadata that needs to be accessed quickly, while the SCM is used for storing large data sets. The metadata includes a map that indicates if data pages or slots in the SCM are occupied, and a list of free slots for allocation. The system allows for efficient allocation of storage space and faster data read and write operations.

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However, because of the slow HDD input / output (I / O) performance in both latency and bandwidth, writing to a HDD has long been a key bottleneck of software systems.
However, attempting to reduce or hide I / O performance impact makes data software systems design and application building complex.

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[0030]The present invention may be understood more readily by reference to the following detailed description of the invention taken in connection with the accompanying drawing figures, which form a part of this disclosure. It is to be understood that this invention is not limited to the specific devices, methods, conditions or parameters described and / or shown herein, and that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments by way of example only and is not intended to be limiting of the claimed invention.

[0031]One or more exemplary embodiments of the invention are described below in detail. The disclosed embodiments are intended to be illustrative only since numerous modifications and variations therein will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art.

[0032]Embodiments of the present invention relate to a data storage space management system for a storage class memory (SCM) storage device. Storage class memory is a class of memory technolo...

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Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer program products for memory space management for storage class memory. One embodiment comprises a method for information storage in an information technology environment. The method comprises storing data in a storage class memory (SCM) space, and storing storage management metadata corresponding to said data, in the SCM in a first data structure. The method further includes buffering storage management metadata corresponding to said data, in a main memory in a second data structure.

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BACKGROUND[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates generally to data storage management, and more particularly to data storage space management for storage class memory.[0003]2. Description of Related Art[0004]Many software systems, such as database software systems (data stores), in information technology system rely on hard disk drive (HDD) storage for persistency of stored data. However, because of the slow HDD input / output (I / O) performance in both latency and bandwidth, writing to a HDD has long been a key bottleneck of software systems. Due to a large difference in access speed between Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) and HDD, “hiding” I / O during application execution has become important in software system design. However, attempting to reduce or hide I / O performance impact makes data software systems design and application building complex.[0005]In conventional space management approaches for HDD space management, the entire space is divided into...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F12/02
CPCG06F3/06G06F12/0646G06F12/02G06F3/0608G06F3/0644G06F3/0656G06F3/0679
Inventor FANG, RUHE, BINHSIAO, HUI-IMOHAN, CHANDRASEKARAN
Owner IBM CORP
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